Record-setting Nepalese mountaineer Chhirum Sherpa began an expedition to Mount Everest on Sunday carrying a cricket bat and two jerseys belonging to Australian cricketer Phillip Hughes, who died in November. Read More »

India and the West Indies, both two-time winners of the Cricket World Cup, face each other in the tournament on Friday, with the team from the Subcontinent unbeaten and in fine form at the top of Pool B. Read More »

Cricket, a sport that is as thrilling to some as it is confusing to others. In an attempt to explain some of the basics of the game, the Journal visited Hong Kong Cricket Club, which was founded in 1851 and is the oldest cricket club in Asia, to interview coach Simon Cook who explained the scoring system and the ways bowlers and batsmen play. Read More »

What Australia’s Ashton Agar did was basically the equivalent of Mariano Rivera hitting multiple grand slams.

One of the greatest statistical achievements in sports history just took place, even if that’s news to most U.S. fans. The Sports Retort explains it all with the help of our resident NFL-loving Brit, Jonathan Clegg. This represents the first time the word “mullygrubber” has been used on the show.

With Clegg in residence, we discuss Britain’s sudden sports ascendance, and push him for a candid answer on whether the average Englishman would have preferred Tim Henman to win Wimbledon before Scot Andy Murray. He also explains why he walked the length of Manhattan looking at basketball courts. We ponder why on earth there’s a climbing wall in Milwaukee’s Miller Park and whether archery and cricket fans can co-exist. Read More »

Australia’s Ashton Agar acknowledges the applause as he leaves the field after scoring 98 on his debut during the first Test of the 2013 Ashes series between England and Australia.

In cricket the last slot in the batting order is a little like the pitcher’s spot in National League baseball. It’s usually reserved for your weakest hitter and you’d be crazy to count on getting anything from it.

But on the second day of the Ashes Thursday, Australia’s Ashton Agar defied all orthodoxy to rescue his side and post a huge 98 runs against England. It was the highest total ever recorded in Test cricket by a No. 11 batsman, surpassing the previous record of 95, set last year by the West Indies’ Tino Best, also against England. In 136 years of Test cricket, the average No. 11’s score was just 8.56 runs, according to ESPN Cricinfo. Read More »

Thursday night was supposed to belong to the NFL draft, our annual national celebration of neckless men hugging Roger Goodell and trying on hats while football-faced men sit at tables and talk nervously into phones.

But while the first round of the NFL draft delivered all that and more, it was also thoroughly upstaged by news out of the college football world. After years of defiant, hugely lucrative stasis, news broke Thursday that the major-college conference presidents and the Bowl Championship Series brass were moving forward with plans for a college football playoff that could pit the nation’s (supposed) four top teams against each other as soon as 2014. “The move to a playoff has been so long resisted by the BCS that it was a sort of triumph Thursday when Pac-12 commissioner Larry Scott said, ‘We’ve agreed to use the ‘p’ word,’ the Journal’s Rachel Bachman writes. “But it’s clear that the BCS’s power brokers want change.” Read More »

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